On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee.

  • Robert Lee
Date:
1860
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Credit: On the nature of ovarian cysts / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On opening the cavity of the abdomen, there escaped about two gallons of water mixed with blood. On the left side of the umbilical region, there was an ovarial tumour, rather larger than a human heart; the contents of which were a semifluid substance, a good deal resembling in appearance clouted cream. In the middle of this cream¬ like substance was found a tuft of hair about the size of a hen^s egg. The surface of the tumour was nearly covered by clusters of hydatids, beautifully transparent and con¬ cocted like a bunch of grapes. On the broad ligament of the left side of the uterus, there arose a number of small, white tumours of the size of common peas. The uterus itself was not diseased. The ^bladder was very much dis¬ tended, or rather plugged -up with a substance similar to that which was contained in the ovarial tumour ; and here also was discovered another large tuft of hair. The coats of the bladder were very much indurated, and particularly the inner coat. The urethra appeared to have no direct communication with the bladder; at the under and pos¬ terior part of which there was attached a small cyst, having the same cream-like substance before described, and also a quantity of hair, and, what is deserving of particular notice, there was a perfectly formed incisor tooth, having the enamel, and its fang firmly attached to the coats of the cyst. This cyst or cavity had a communication with the bladder bv means of three small foramina, and it commu- nicated also with the urethra on the anterior part.^^ In the tenth volume of the Medico-Chirurgical Transactions,^ Dr. Merriman has related two more cases in which parturition was rendered difficult by the presence of these ovarian cysts between the vagina and rectum; and Dr. Bostock analysed the sebaceous matter taken from one of these, and found it to consist of “ a concrete animal oil, nearly in a state of purity, similar to butter or lard.^^ It does not appear, from the ‘ Medico-Chirurgical Trans¬ actions,^ that any communication has been made to this Society on ovarian cysts which contain teeth, hair, and ^ ‘Med.-Chir. Trans.,’ vol. ix, p. 427, 1818. y
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